Last week, Toni Sweeney — also writing as Tony-Paul de Vissage — sat down for an interview with J. Scott Coatsworth. A prolific writer of vampire and werewolf fiction, Toni has close to 100 titles under her belt, including The Nightman’s Odyssey and Path of the Wolf which releases on September 23rd. Toni is one of the hardest working authors we know.
Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
JSC: Are you a full-time or part-time writer? How does that affect your writing?
TVS: Since I’m retired, I’d call it full time. I allow about 8 hours a day for writing which would constitute a full-time job if I got paid by the hour. I’m at the computer typing away most of the day. In the morning, I do a quck run to the gym, then back for breakfast, and by 10:00 AM, on to the computer. Around 5:30, I stop for dinner, watch a little TV and then it’s beddy-bye time.
JSC: What tools do you feel are must-haves for writers?
TVS: Having a good knowledge of grammar and spelling, and the good sense to check facts. When in doubt, check it out. Good o’ Google is there to help.
JSC: What were your goals and intentions in The Nightman’s Odyssey, and how well do you feel you achieved them?
TVS: Vampire stories are always set in the past or the present. Offhand, I don’t know of many—if any—that reach into the future, so I wanted this novel to show that the story can just keep going, and going. I also wanted to give an idea of how someone who lived so long might feel. Would he miss those who’d died? Envy them? Feel angry because they were no longer with him? Would he marvel at all that Mankind had achieved and think of all he’d witnessed. Would he be bored beyond belief after so many years? And most importantly, would he feel lonely?
Read the rest of the interview on Scott’s blog: https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotlight-tony-sweeney/. Be sure to follow him for more content like his interview with Toni Sweeney, and to make sure you never miss one of Toni/Tony-Paul’s new releases, subscribe to our newsletter.
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